So the second satellite dish finally got turned into a bird bath.
Before:
After:
I used thinset to set all the glass beads on the dish.
I am still debating on whether I would like to grout it or not.
I wont be sealing it, because I don't think there is any sealant safe for birds out there.
Irene has left me powerless and flooded -- literally. This means that almost nothing is getting done on the creativity front. I did manage to smash the umbrella stand and another broken pot to get some tile fragments for the second dish antenna bird bath. Here are a few pics.
All the deluge we have had in the month of August, coupled with the fact that we had been putting off fixing our gutters and downspout could lead only to one thing. And it did -- a watery basement. This forced us putter-off-er of things to actually get down and dirty and de-clutter the basement (well almost completely) and fix the gutters. Needless to say the de-cluttering part was not necessarily pretty stuff. But, in rummaging through the dusty, musty, cobwebby innards of the basement, I did find something interesting.
Aha! Another dish antenna
Naturally, I decided to put this to good use as well and build another dish antenna bird bath. But this one is a bit different from the previous one, in that it has no holes on the side. So, this will have to be fixed onto a rod or something of the kind.
Anyway, I decided to remove the arm of the dish antenna.
underside of the dish antenna
After the arm was removed
Now it's able to sit level -- almost level
I don't plan on just painting this and calling it quits. I am planning on sitting this on a log on the ground. Like this:
Log stand for the dish antenna
Sawing bits of the log off, or burying it unevenly should make the dish level with the horizontal. Only thing remaining is to make it heavy enough so it wont fly off in the wind. I am planning on mosaicking the dish to add weight and some interest.
A few years ago, during a bad thunderstorm, our Dufus broke my umbrella stand. I patched it up several times and he broke it once more than several times. Finally, I put it out on the deck in the hopes of working on it someday. I think it's day is finally here. I will be using this broken umbrella stand as a source for the tiles.
Considering that it has managed to stand the outdoors for this many years, it should be ok to be used as tiles for my birdbath.
